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Production & workflow · Lesson 6 of 8

Recording vocals in a room that is not a studio

26 minFoundationalFree

What you’ll be able to do

  • Get a usable vocal in an untreated room
  • Fix the problems that make home vocals sound amateur
  • Choose placement over gear
  • Know when the room is beating you

Inside this lesson

  1. 1Watch first: the room, not the microphone
  2. 2Placement first
  3. 3Then technique
  4. 4When to stop fighting

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In this lesson you will learn: Get a usable vocal in an untreated room. Fix the problems that make home vocals sound amateur. Choose placement over gear. Know when the room is beating you.

What this lesson covers

Get a usable vocal in an untreated room

Fix the problems that make home vocals sound amateur

Choose placement over gear

Know when the room is beating you

Inside this lesson

Watch first: the room, not the microphone

Placement first

Then technique

When to stop fighting

Take this lesson in the LUCY app

Open this lesson in LUCY and it rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Finish the track and the badge is yours. Free with a LUCY account.